Wrote this a long time ago. Too short for an article:
Perverted - Hentai in Japanese. But the word pervert means
deviation from normal or accepted. So, how can all guys be
perverts?

Did you ever notice that the sex scene in the movie is generally
at about the same realative place as the guitar solo in a song?

Anime - Robotech (the movie) - aka The Untold Story 3 out of 5
2007-04-18

I've included some plot summaries below from imdb and wikipedia. I was rather
impressed with the peice. Apparently the release version is the second version
though. The first version was rejected as having too many girls and not enough
robots. I'd love to see it (from some more reading I think it's just the straight
Megazone 23 story though). This movie is in line with the rest of the Robotech
series in that it's put together from existing animes. In this case Megazone 23
(which I've yet to see an end to) and Southern Cross (from which the third
Robotech series is made from).

The storyline is not half bad and works within itself. I was expecting it to be
real hokey, but it kept interest and seemed to develop characters. There was a
little bit of tongue in cheek when I encountered parts of the Megazone 23 plot
that were completely changed. Also this story has little to do with the rest of
Robotech. It's merely a Robotech story.

It looks like ADV currently holds rights to the movie (bought with Megazone 23)
and could release it, but is unlikely to do so. Parts of the movie are included
with the recent Robtech DVD set. Also don't confuse this movie with Robotech II:
The Sentenals, a later movie that only barely got off the ground and went
stright to video. This movie didn't even do that. It was test marketed in Texas
and then canned. It was released on video a couple places in Europe. There is
currently a version available for download on the internet "For Viewing Purposes
Only".

For those of you unfamiliar with Megazone 23, it's a short story/movie made by
the company that made Macross (the show that Robotech was made from). I'm pretty
sure it's the second work after Macross, Orguss being the first (I'm going to
have to watch that sometime too, it's one of those that streamline went out of
business halfway though).

Anyway Megazone 23 is along the lines of The Matrix. Everyone goes along doing
their thing in their city when this guy with a fancy bike discovers that the
city is in space and the whole city is controlled by a supercomputer. Apparently
the city has existed like this for several hundred years. Classic sci-fi stuff.
I think you can buy Megazone 23 on DVD now, where until recently only half of
it was released on VHS.

from imdb:
Plot summary for Robotech: The Movie (1986)
In 1999 an alien spaceship crashed onto the earth. Hidden on board were the
secrets of a unique science known as Robotechnology. Data banks found in the
ship were transferred to the Earth Robotech Computer Complex. In 2009, an alien
search party arrived from hyper-space to reclaim their lost data bank. The
united Earth Government was forced into an Inter Galactic war. Earth forces were
able to win the first battle......but at a great cost. The planet was virtually
destroyed. New population centers grew out of the ashes..... It is now 2027, a
second armada sent by the aliens is nearing earth, they have come to recapture
the secrets of their lost technology and then destroy the Earth. Written by
Anonymous

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From wikipedia:
Also called Robotech: The Untold Story, this theatrical film was the first new
Robotech adventure created after the premiere of the original series. It used
footage from the Megazone 23 Part 1 OVA (Original Video Animation, or
made-for-video animated feature) spliced with Southern Cross, and had only a
tenuous link to the television series. The movie disappeared from the United
States after a failed test run in Texas. Harmony Gold relinquished their license
to Megazone 23 after director Carl Macek washed his hands of the project, so any
home video release is unlikely except for a few VHS tapes that had been in
limited circulation in Europe and Latin America.